What's The Secret To Managing Multiple Projects At The Same Time?

So, how do you manage multiple projects?

You know that's a good question to start this blog.

My answer is simple it's all about organisation and discipline.

But you also have to realise that everyone has a ceiling. By that I mean that you only have the ability to manage so many different types of projects before you go into overload.

How do you recognise overload? You're sacked, you resign exhausted or you simply deliver past deadlines, over cost or just plain and simple garbage.

The objective for this blog then is to describe the types of projects that you'll come across and whether they're easy, difficult or pretty near impossible to manage as a portfolio of projects.

A further, possibly more important objective is to give you methods, tips, techniques and strategies you can apply at work tomorrow for real results.

So if you've any questions about managing multiple projects let me know and as time goes on I'll do my best to answer it or get someone else to give their view.

Some of the topics I'll be covering include:

• presenting across different industries, don't mix terminology
• the importance of proper project audit
• keeping track of changes over multiple projects
• How managing multiple projects and programmes is subtly different
• Why you should progress projects by teleconference
• How to check that products are delivered
• When to go higher in your organisation

In my next blog I'll explain about the importance of planning how you spend your time on your different projects. Also making sure you track actual time. And the best way to record both using an Excel spreadsheet - which we'll build into a multi-project dashboard as this blog goes on.